EX-EPSTEIN ASSOCIATE JEAN-LUC BRUNEL FOUND DEAD IN FRENCH JAIL

Sun 20 February 2022:

According to the Paris prosecutor’s office, a French modeling agent who was close to disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead on Saturday in his prison cell in Paris, where he was being held in an investigation into the rape of minors and the trafficking of minors for sexual exploitation.

Jean-Luc Brunel was found hanged, according to a source close to the investigation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to the AFP news agency, but this was not confirmed by prosecutors.

The death of the agent, Brunel, is being investigated by Paris police, according to the prosecutor’s office.

Brunel was detained at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport in 2020 as part of a wide-ranging French investigation sparked by sex-trafficking allegations leveled against Epstein in the United States. He was charged with rape of minor girls in December.

Epstein committed suicide in a Manhattan jail in 2019 while awaiting trial.

Jeffrey Epstein associate, Jean-Luc Brunel, found dead in French prison cell Photograph:( Twitter ).

“His tragedy is that of a 75-year-old man crushed by a media-judicial system, about which there will now be time to ask questions,” his lawyers, Mathias Chichportich, Marianne Abgrall and Christophe Ingrain said in a statement.

“Jean-Luc Brunel had always maintained his innocence and had intensified his efforts to prove it,” it said, adding that his apparent suicide death was “not guided by guilt but a profound sense of injustice”.

Giuffre

Virginia Giuffre tweeted: “The suicide of Jean-Luc Brunel, who abused me and countless girls and young women, ends another chapter. I’m disappointed that I wasn’t able to face him in a final trial to hold him accountable, but gratified that I was able to testify in person last year to keep him in prison.”

The suicide of Jean-Luc Brunel, who abused me and countless girls and young women, ends another chapter. I’m disappointed that I wasn’t able to face him in a final trial to hold him accountable, but gratified that I was able to testify in person last year to keep him in prison.

— Virginia Giuffre (@VRSVirginia) February 19, 2022

Prince Andrew of the United Kingdom agreed to settle a case in which he was accused of sexually abusing a 17-year-old girl who was trafficked to him by Epstein earlier this week.

Andrew agreed to make a significant donation to his accuser’s charity in exchange for avoiding a trial.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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